ANST - Barbarians at the gates?!

[j'lynn yeates]

On 20 Jun 98, at 12:04, PKieferjr at aol.com wrote:

> I suspected that you weren't making this up.

if memory serves, i was reading a analysis of the final conquests leading up to the fall 
of Baghdad by the mongols ... europe and the middle east had moderate refuge inside 
their city walls util the mongols chinese conquests added the worlds finest siege 
engineers to the ranks of the armies.

one fact often overlooked in analysing the power of the mongol military machine is the 
same things that allowed us to blitz iraq in the last war ... combined units, exceptional 
integration of forces, coordinated operations, technical innovation, a long range 
communications network, superior and flexible tactics designed for the various 
enemies they faced ... 

one of my great loves during the university phase and afterwards was military history 
(even arrainged to take the military history course in the ROTC department without 
being one ... the cadets really enjoyed the long haired, bearded, barefoot, bicycle-
toting, "hippy" that attended their classes with their leader's blessings ... and ace'd the 
courses)

needless to say, also have more than a passing interest in the mogol empire, culture, 
and military

'wolf



... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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